Murder Story of Sladkovodnaya Jews in the Sladkovodnoye Area

In addition, on the 12th day of December, 1941 6 people were shot after being tortured in Sladkovodnoye village, i.e., 3 peaceful civilians of the given village -- Moishe Mazursky, Abram Lagarber, and Haim Likhman -- and 3 prisoners of war ….were shot [the word is not clear] in that village. Two Germans and an interpreter arrived, as well as our former village head, who had been dispossessed as a kulak in 1929 and sentenced. His last name was Yabs; he was an ethnic German who was born in 1910. I cannot remember the names of the others ….One of them called all the people to a meeting, where he praised the German authorities. After that he told the Russians to leave but the Jews to remain at the meeting [place]. … The Germans, whose names I do not know, took the Jewish residents and went to their homes. When 3 Jews returned to work, they told us that the German immediately demanded that they be given the [Jews'] best clothes, money, and gold. And on December 13, the rest [of the Jews] were shot in the village. After the brutal violence against the helpless civilians on December [? ], the surviving Jewish families were told to take their valuables since there were [supposedly] going to Novo-Zlatopol. 89 people were sent to Novo-Zlatopol from Sladkovodnoye and were killed there.